my video to big

[magoo70]

Hi all,I finally got my video together,about 29 minutes. Now I can't get it on a dvd, Can you give me some advice,how I break it up I guess I will have to use 2 dvds.Also when I got to the end point of all the steps,I realized,all the extra pictures I encluded in the video were gone??? Thanks for any help,I'm beginning to hate this project..ROTFL

[Ken Berry]

A 29 minutes project should fit easily on a single layer DVD. Even using the highest quality settings it should only be about 2 GB, while a DVD can take up to 4.3 GB. But of course it must be in DVD-compliant mpeg-2 for this to happen. What is the format you are using? And how did you try to add the photos? Did you make them into a slideshow, or just add them to the timeline one by one?

[magoo70]

Sir, I have no idea what format I used how do you find that (sigh) I placed the photos directly into the time line. I used many old photos,which I placed in my computer via the printer,I tried to compact each photo,using a microsoft program. I also had many wedding pictures from my nikon camera, I put in the timeline,one by one . It is very possible,during the share part I goofed up,but so far every time I get to the burning ,I get a message that I have not enough space on the dvd. I bought the dvds at best buy.is the dvd-compliant mpeg-2 a different dvd?.. The format might be the problem,I find the sharing section of this program hard to understand. My last attempt,I went to tools,then creat disk then dvd,is how I started,from there its just a blurr,sorry. I do know at the very end,I made a mistake,and got rid of the templet. I thought I would save space ,lol I ended up with a bunch of single files,and still not enough space.I hope I answered your questions. Any help would be appreciated..Thank you

[magoo70]

Oh I almost for got my first attempt,I did burn to DVds but no dvd player in my house could read the files. Does this help the problem solving? Thanks Magoo

[teknisyan]

How did you create or burn the files to your DVD? So at least we'll know if you created a playable DVD or a DVD data disc.

[magoo70]

Hi all I finally found the problem,it was me,I got them in dvd,and while not overly pleased with all my efforts,it is a beginning. Thanks for all your efforts to help me.